Today Microsoft released another of its major World Updates for Microsoft Flight Simulator, focusing on Australia.
The update requires three separate downloads on PC (and of course, it’s also available on Xbox). A small 500 MB update on the Windows Store or Steam is the first step, followed by a 1.88 GB update within the sim. Lastly, to get all the goodies, you’ll need an optional download from the in-sim marketplace which weighs 2.51 GB.
The update enriches the scenery in Australia considerably, and you can read the full patch notes here.
You can find a full list of features and a trailer below. Incidentally, we recently learned that the next world update in March will feature Spain and Portugal.
Photogrammetry Cities
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Brisbane
- Hobart
- Adelaide
- Perth
- Cairns
- Darwin
- Townsville
- Mackay
- Bunbury
Hand-Crafted Airport
- YLRE – Longreach
- YMBT – Mount Beauty Airport
- YPBO – Paraburdoo
- YSHL – Shellharbour Airport
Hand-Crafted Points of Interest
- 1 William Street
- 108 St Georges Terrace
- 443 Queen Street
- 568 Collins Street
- Abbot Point Coal Terminal
- Adelaide Oval
- Albion Viaduct
- Anzac Bridge
- Aurora Melbourne Central
- Australia 108
- Bathurst Mount Panorama Racing Circuit
- Bathurst Point Lighthouse
- Batman Bridge
- Bay of Islands
- Bolte Bridge
- Brisbane Skytower
- Broadcast Australia Tower
- Brookfield Place
- Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
- Cape Byron Lighthouse
- Cape Cleveland Lighthouse
- Cape Don Lighthouse
- Cape Nelson Lighthouse
- Cape Wickham Lighthouse
- Cascade Dam
- Central Park
- Devils Gate Dam
- Eureka Tower
- Federation Square
- Flinders Street Railway Station
- Gabo Island Lighthouse
- Gladesville Bridge
- Gordon Dam
- Grange Resources Port Latta Pier
- Great Barrier Reef Activity Platform
- Green Island Jetty
- Hawkesbury River Rail Bridge
- Houghton Highway Viaduct
- Infinity Tower
- Longitude 131° Lodge
- Luna Park
- Marvel Stadium
- Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Melbourne Grand
- Melbourne Square
- Mooney Mooney Bridge
- Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory
- Narrows Bridge
- Ocean, 88 The Esplanade
- One Barangaroo
- Optus Stadium
- Parkes Observatory
- Paul Wild Observatory
- Peats Ferry Bridge
- Perth Arena
- Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
- Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility
- Premier Tower
- Prima Pearl Tower
- Queen’s Wharf Brisbane
- Queens Place North Tower
- Rialto Towers
- Siding Spring Observatory
- Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (Gateway Bridges)
- Soleil Brisbane
- South Sister Lookout Antennae
- Split Point Lighthouse
- Stadium Australia
- Story Bridge
- Strangways Springs Ruins
- Suncorp Stadium
- Swanston Central
- Sydney Cricket Ground
- Sydney Football Stadium
- Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Sydney Tower
- Tasman Bridge
- Telstra Tower
- The Big Banana Fun Park
- The Big Merino
- The Big Pineapple
- The Big Prawn
- The Gabba
- The One
- The WACA Ground
- Three Sisters
- Townsville Port
- Twelve Apostles
- Victoria Police Centre Towers
- Wadjemup Lighthouse
- Warragamba Dam
- West Gate Bridge
- West Side Place
- Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse
Bush Trip
- Tasmania
- Southeastern Australia
- Sea to Desert
- Great Barrier Reef
- Northwestern Kimberly Coast
Landing Challenges
- Brisbane
- Shellharbour
- Mt Hotham
- Katoomba
- Mabuiag
Discovery Flight
- Gold Coast
- Sydney
- Perth
- Darwin
- Melbourne
- Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
On top of the update, we also get the second “Local Legend” paid DLC, in the form of the historical Fokker F.VII.
It can be purchased at $14.99 on the official marketplace and it comes with the Fokker F.VIIa variant with one engine and the Fokker F.VIIb/3m with three engines.
Various liveries are included, like Southern Cross, which accomplished the first trans-pacific flight from California to Australia, Friendship, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean with Amelia Earhart as a passenger, Josephine Ford, which flew to the North Pole, and a KLM aircraft that did the first flight ever from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies.
You can take a look in the trailer below.
